To be scared sh*tless about the cuts being made.

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We will be hit very, very hard by these cuts. dh is out of work, and has been for some time. he has finally been offered a p/t job (min 12h contract) at a local shop but there is genuinely nothing else out there for him. we receive full HB and CTB, have one child and I am unable to work due to a severe form of teitzes, I did work for Iceland but even working on the till made my condition worse. I receive IB.

my condition (while I am in constant "humming" pain) is subject to flare ups. and flare ups often occur after something as simple as shopping. there is no cure and I am likely to get worse. I am terrified that the DWP (under new guidelines) will take away our HB and CTB because dh cant get a full time job. I am terrified that I will be pronounced fit to work when (if you look at my records) I am not.

anyone else want to sit with me and quake as the coalition plunge us back into poverty?

It makes me when they keep spouting that the NHS is safe - rubbish. If funding isn't being reduced then explain why in our NHS we've got a freeze on recruitment, have to make savings of £40 million this year, and are cutting services??? NHS depends on a lot of short term funding, capital funds, big lottery funding etc etc - all of which are being cut. Cuts to Local Authority budgets will see NHS having to pick up the slack - and we've no money to do it with.

Of course cuts had to be made - but the Tory's are doing this for idealogical reasons as well - they're loving it.

But hey! "We're all in it together" - bollocks

herbietea your DH is classed as a 'single earner' if you are incapacitated for work purposes by your disability.

"Childcare tax credit: eligibility

If at the date of application the applicant is

1. Incurring relevant childcare charges or

2. Has entered into an agreement for the provision of childcare and will incur under that agreement relevant childcare charges for child care during the period of the award and is a lone parent or
   member of a couple where both are in remunerative work or

   member of a couple where one member is in paid work and the other member is incapacitated ."

"Decision Makers Guide - DMG11204
Childcare tax credit: meaning of incapacitated

Incapacitated for the purposes of the other member of the couple means that

1. Council tax benefit or housing benefit is in payment and

   the other member of the couple is incapacitated for the purposes of the CTB or HB child care rules. Included in the applicable amount is

1.1) a DP or
1.2) a HPP following from a DP
because of the other member's disability or

2. Because of that other member's incapacity one of the following is payable
   2.1) IBLT
   2.2) BST(H)
   2.3) AA

   2.4) SDA

2.5) DLA
2.6) Increase of Dis P
2.7) an increase under a war pension or II scheme, similar to an allowance or increase of Dis P as in 2.2, 2.4 or 2.5 or

3. One of the benefits as in 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6 was

   payable to the other member but had ceased to become payable because of that person becoming a patient or

4. A similar benefit to any of those as described in 1 . or
   2 . Under Northern Ireland law or

5. The other member has an invalid carriage or other
   vehicle provided (in any part of the UK) under the IVS."

I think what strikes me as being most wrong in this is how it is going to affect vulnerable people, not only in what they might lose but in their state of mind. As a disabled person it can feel a very frightening road ahead, almost like a landslide with nothing to cling to.

I'm feeling like this today. I'm pretty level headed in general and don't get overly phased. But today I'm scared. Nobody is ever going to employ me. But they might decide to take away my DLA if they see me on a day I'm doing OK. And then what? dh is on a fairly low wage and we rely on CTC/WTC and DLA.

If we can't afford to heat the house any more this would have what could be very serious effects on me.

I want my kids to have a mum.

I hate this

So glad it got sorted herbietea

But crap that you had to go through this. There is something so undignified about it all, and many vulnerable people simply don't have the strength to fight. So they don't. It just makes me sad.

I love my parents but it does make me laugh that they get fuel allowance, free home insulation, bus passes etc (not that they eve use them) when they are sat in a £750k house mortgage free home that they bought for £250k ten years ago.

I am worried about the cuts because both DH and I work for a large employer who works mainly on government contracts.

The government is disingenous to say that the private sector will provide employment for the 490.000 public sector workers that will lose their jobs; the reality is that probably another half a million jobs will actually go from all the private companies who service the government too.

Or maybe even more.

After today's announcements, my company's shares have plummeted on the stock market.

It's a really scary time.

But hey, we're all in it together...hmmmm

smallwhitecat why the heck do you think they care about headlines?...they have the perfect excuse for their behaviour..

Thatcher wasn't bothered by the headlines....... (not that she was in her right mind - but then I don't think Cameron is in his right mind either)

smallwhitecat, the cuts are in line (as i said earlier) with tory idealogy. "the punish the poor" aspect of conservative policies have never been more obvious.

smallwhitecat, are you going to be potentially homeless, and unable to provide heating and/or adequate food for your child/ren? no? then stop laughing at us. we are scared, with damned good reason. have some empathy ffs

They don't care smallwhitecat..seriously you will see...are you Right then? anyone opposed to the way they have cut and what they have cut are completely left-wing and a bit mad?..

fgs, what has been said is that the cuts are in line with conservative policies. they were always going to hit the poor the hardest. history has taught us that. this government is no different than thatchers.

smallwhitecat who is being affected the most by these cuts?

herbie, thats really shit [hsad]

I truly believe that the spending to a certain degree was something that had to be done...notice the opposition was not vocal abotu this...there would have always been a price to pay...but some of these cuts are too deep and that is not down Labour...the cuts were always coming thats a fact...

exactly mumcentre. labour cannot be held totally responsible. we were always going to be hit by a recession, the internet boom meant that economically pretty much every country was riding high and benefitted from extra tourism etc, then everything crashed (as it was always going to) and we had the banking crisis, what would the tory's done differently? they opposed regulating the banks! as i said earlier, many people benefitted financially from the labour years at the time, and huge mistakes were made. but the bankers still got their bonuses, the mps can still claim for their second homes meanwhile many people will have their jobs taken from them, under reforms to the benefit system will not be able to afford to live and not be able to afford a home